News - 9/02

As of mid-August, the LipSinc Web site and operations appeared to be functioning, but company representatives could not be reached for comment.

Exluna Merges with NvidiaRendering software maker Exluna announced that it has merged with graphics manufacturer Nvidia. Exluna had recently introduced Entropy, a rendering program for professional digital artists, and the subject of a lawsuit by Pixar, from which several Exluna officers had come. Exluna also distributed BMRT (Blue Moon Rendering Tools). Neither Entropy nor BMRT are now being sold.

benchmark

Wildcat III Tops 3dsmax-01 PerformersWildcat III graphics cards from 3Dlabs recently earned top performance numbers for the 3ds max subset of the SPECviewperf 7.0 benchmark. The 3dsmax-01 benchmark is based on Discreet's 3ds max modeling and animation software and consists of 14 tests, each of which represents a different mode of operation within 3ds max.

The mean scores show the combined, weighted results of the 14 tests, measured in the number of frames per second the machines were able to execute. The larger the numbers, the better the performance.

To see how the same graphics cards and workstations fared in other benchmark tests, visit www.spec.org/gpc.